On Sat, Sep 29, 2012 at 12:10 AM, David Faure <fa...@kde.org> wrote: > On Tuesday 25 September 2012 19:16:43 Jos Poortvliet wrote: > > Hi, > > > > We need your help to do better at engaging the world-wide Qt developer > > community. Please answer this question: > > > > "what classes and components in KDELibs/Frameworks 5 do you think are > most > > interesting for external Qt developers and why?" > > > > I think the best example is the KArchive frameworks, since Qt developers > have > been missing ZIP support in Qt (and other archive formats), as well as > single- > file gzip/bzip2/xz compression. > > Then there's sonnet, a complete spellchecking framework (core and widgets). > > Solid, for hardware detection (http://solid.kde.org iirc) > > Threadweaver, for giving out jobs to threads with support for job > dependencies > (which is not available in QThreadPool). > > KIdleTime, detecting when the user is not using the computer > (cross-platform) > > KConfig, a non-deprecated configuration framework :-) > (with better API and more features than the almost-deprecated QSettings) > > Many addons for the model/view framework (currently called "itemmodels", > maybe > that's a bit too generic though). > > KIO, a "VFS" implementation based on Qt. > > KCoreAddons, for > * a job 'framework' for asynchronous tasks > * random numbers / random strings / random ordering in lists > * auto-saving, backups > * file locking (which I plan to try and move to Qt for 5.1) > > A large number of additional widgets (capacity bar, led, ruler, selector, > separator, x/y selector, ... a lot more coming) > > XMLGUI, for user-configurable desktop GUIs (menus/toolbars/shortcuts). > > And a lot more.... >
There is also kdelibs/dnssd, which is a pretty good Qt wrapper for dns service discovery (read Avahi). > > > Please add explanations and links to documentation where possible. > > Not sure you want links to the code... but right now there isn't much more > (like per-framework web space and general information...) > > -- > David Faure, fa...@kde.org, http://www.davidfaure.fr > Working on KDE, in particular KDE Frameworks 5 > -- Vishesh Handa
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